Lady&#39;s garment.



A. MALSIN.

LADYSGARMENT. APPLICATIIQN FILED JULY 9.1915.

Patented Feb. 4, 1919.

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ALBERT mALsm, or NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR. To LANE BRYANT, me, or miwYORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION on NEW YORK.

LADYS GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 9, 1915. Serial No. 38,846.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT MALsIN, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in LadiesGarments, of which the following is a specification.

. The present invention relates to ladies garments and particularly tothe ty e of garment known to the trade as divid skirt or pantaloons. y

The object of the invention is to produce a garment of that type whichwill give great comfort "and freedom of movement of the limbs and whichin order to avoid the objectionable vulgar appearance will substantiallyhave the form of a skirt.-

To accomplish my object the garment is composed of an'outer part adaptedto constitute the skirt and which is made up of two separate pieces,each folded into the shape of an oval and both connected only at theirupper edges or :at the waistband portion, and an inner part made-of twoor more pieces out and sewed together in the form of pantaloons, butwhich differs from ordinary pantaloons in that they are open at theirouter sides and have no waist portion.

The longitudinal edges along the open sides are sewed to the partsforming the skirt and constitute trunks for the limbs. In order toprovide for great freedom of movement to the limbs and to conceal thepantaloon-shaped inner part and the crotches thereof, the pieces formingthe skirt are so cut as to gradually widen toward the bottom and areplaited all around or only in front and back, and the plaits are soarranged that the central plaits or those located at the points ofconnection of the twopieces will almost acters denote correspondingparts, Figure 1 bemg an elevation of my new garment; F g. 2 a crosssection on line 2-2 of Fig, 1; F1g. 3 a cross section on line 3-3 of Fig1; Fig 4 a longitudinal section on line 44 of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 anelevation of a modified structure; Fig. 6 a cross section on line 6-6 ofFig. 5, and Fig. 7 a cross section on line 77 of Fig. 5.

Referring to the drawing, it will be seen that the garment consists oftwo parts, an outer part A and an inner part B. The outer part isadapted to constitute the skirt and is composed of two pieces a, a eachof which is folded into an oval (Fig. 2). The twopieces are sewedtogether only at their upper edges or at the waist band w, but are loosethroughout the rest of thelength of the garment, as at a, Figs. l-5. Thetwo pieces are each cut so as to be narrower at the waistband andwidening toward the bot tom and each of the pieces is formed withlongitudinal flaring plaits a". The object of the plaits is firsttoprovide for greater freedom of movement to the limbs of the wearer andsecondly to conceal the real nature of the garment. The inner arts -B isadapted to constitute panta cons and is composed of two or more pieces6, I) cut and sewed together in the form of pantaloons, forming thecrotch b", but differing from real pantaloons in that the outer sidesthereof are open, as at b. The longitudinal edges 72 along the opensides are sewed to the respective pieces a of the skirt, so that trunksc, c for the limbs of the wearer are formed. The plaitings are soarranged that those in front and back which are located in the centeralmost touch one another, as at d, and thus overlap the crotch of thepantaloons and conceal the inner part B.

Instead of the plaitings a the outer parts a, a may have folds a formedby turning their longitudinal edges inwardly, as in Patented Feb. 4,1919.

Figs. 6 and 7 and the pantaloon-shaped inner part B may have itslongitudinal edges 6 atthe open sides sewed tosaid folds, as at b? (Fig.5). The outer parts a, a willat their juncture overlap and thus concealthe crotch. I

In order to allow the wearer, if she so desires, to connect the twoparts of the skirt, so as to prevent the parting thereof while walking,Iprovide a buttonholed flap or tab a s a f and button 9 which I securebelow the central plaits, as in Fi 1-3, or to the folds a, as in Figs. 5and Instead, however, any other suitable fastening means may be providedand concealed behind the plaits to allow of the two skirt portions beingtemporarily connected together.

In the modification according to Fig. 7 the garment is shown as capableof opening at the back. The inner pantaloon-shaped part B is divided onthe central line, as at b", and there may be suitable closing means.

A ladys bifurcated skirt formed of two separate outer piecesconstitutingthe visible portions of the garment united pnly at their upper edges orwaist portions, the lines of separation between these two pieces beingfrom the waist portion downward and at the front and rear of the garmentrespectively, and two inner. ortions united together to! form a crotchan each united along its front and back edges with one of the outerskirt pieces by substantially vertical seams that are located a shortdistance back from the edges of the vertical lines of separation betweenthe outer pieces, the said inner pieces of the garment being without adistinct waist portion individual to the inner pieces of the garment.

In testimony whereof I aflix'my signature in presence of two witnesses.

- ALBERT ll SIN.

Witnesses HENRY HmsoH,

x BERMAN.

